The issue of grade inflation is clarified by examining the database of the College Board's Validity Study Service. Also examined is the effect of grade inflation on the validity of the Scholastic Aptitude Test across a 15-year period. (Author/GK)

Reports the results of research designed to study 1) the relation between college students' affective entry characteristics and final course grades in music education and music therapy classes and 2) the effects of these classes, student grade point average, and student's major on students' affective characteristics and final course grades. (AM)

Human factors will determine whether technology in school business offices will succeed or fail. Procedures are suggested for introducing new office technology. (Author/MLF)

This report illustrates how high school statistics students at the junior and senior year level utilize the TRS-80 microcomputer and the Level II BASIC programing language to handle computations of a least squares problem, where an equation is fitted to empirical data. (MP)

Focusing on postsecondary marketing or distributive education programs, this article assesses recent developments in postsecondary marketing education programs and looks ahead to some of the significant changes likely to occur during the 1980s. Topics discussed include curriculum, instruction, clientele, staff qualifications, articulation, and…

H. Myklebust's Pupil Rating Scale (PRS) was administered to the first (N=92) and second (N=130) grades of a middle-class suburban elementary school to ascertain its effectiveness for predicting reading and arithmetic difficulties. (Author)

Population statistics and changing life styles portend dramatic changes for professional personnel managers in the next two decades. The impact of these changes is anticipated in four functional areas of personnel management: (1) recruiting, selection, and placement; (2) employee relations; (3) compensation and benefits; and (4) management…

A follow-up of participants completing a study skills course showed after one year no differences in attrition rates and significant increases in academic performance. Factors predictive of GPA varied over time. Results suggest that factors related to academic performance change as a function of demands of a university environment. (Author)

Size of family of origin is more strongly related to wife's than husband's life chances. The mediating effect of allocation preferences on the number of siblings/life chances relationship carries through to the number of siblings/number of live-births relationship. (Author)

Classification equations from birth certificate information accurately identified approximately 80 percent of the first-grade children who scored one standard deviation or more below the mean on both a measure of intellectual competence and a measure of adaptive behavior. (Author)

Interviews were held with 88 mentally retarded institutionalized adults (ages 18 to 30) in order to identify types of verbal and nonverbal behavior that are associated with making positive or negative impressions on others and that therefore might be priority targets for communication training efforts. (Author)

Presents data from a study of Princeton chemistry students that supports the idea that students themselves are better predictors of their academic performance than are teaching assistants. The implications of this finding for making tutoring recommendations are discussed. (CS)

Eighth-grade scores for 140 females and 115 males on three cognitive tests and the Fennema-Sherman Mathematics Attitudes Scales were used to predict mathematics grades 1-3 years later. In addition to mathematics achievement, significant relationships were confirmed for spatial visualization and confidence in learning mathematics. (Author/GDC)

Presents validation, from a communication perspective, for semantic differential scales designed to measure attitude toward an object. The favorableness of sources' verbal behavior about an object was related to sources' attitudes toward the object. Receivers accurately estimated sources' attitudes and the favorableness of sources' verbal…

A study to determine if a relationship existed between performance in a business simulation and the ability of groups to make probability assessments revealed several significant relationships on correlations between the two variables. (LLS)